# Fellow migraineurs, how do you cope when you know nothing will help?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-migraineurs-how-do-you-cope-when-you-know-nothing-will-help/789566 "2017-06-21T20:46:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-migraineurs-how-do-you-cope-when-you-know-nothing-will-help/789566/61 "2017-06-24T05:47:00Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Was midrin that stuff that came in reddish pill form? I remember that stuff. Useless (for me), like so much else.

The Midrin I had was red, but it was in capsule form. Which made sense to me, since they were combining medicines.

If that is what works for someone, then I would point out that all three of the ingredients are FDA approved, so you might be able to use a compounding pharmacy.

Fortunately, for me, my migraine episodes are rare, and when they do show up, I usually can actually just go to sleep when the aura starts (as they always make me tired) and basically sleep through the actual pain episode. I just get the postdrome headache when I wake up.

Abortives rarely work, but that does, for some reason.

And I sure hope that saying this isn’t jinxing anything. 😉

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